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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Closed syllable
Accent
Linguistic Method
Old English
VC
2. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Age equivalent
Affix
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
3. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Top-down Reading Approach
Grade equivalents
Phonological Awareness
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
4. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Phonics approach
Progress Monitoring
Syllable Instruction
Mastery level
5. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
VAKT
Mastery level
Modern English
Grade equivalents
6. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Grapheme
Orthography
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Synthetic Instruction
7. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Percentile
Semantics
Grade equivalents
8. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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9. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Phonemic Awareness
Rate
Whole Language
Breve
10. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Chall's Stage 2
MSLE
Diagnostic tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
11. Academic Language Therapy Association
V-e
Cognition
Components of Reading Instruction
ALTA
12. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Simultaneous teaching
Phoneme
Cognition
Morphology
13. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Curriculum referenced tests
Consonant Digraph
14. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Samuel T. Orton
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Age equivalent
Auditory Learners
15. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Attention
Components of Reading Instruction
Direct Instruction
Great Vowel Shift
16. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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17. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Sight Words
Quadrigraph
Social language
18. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
VV
Social language
Phonology
Diagnostic tests
19. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
VAKT
Reliability
Phonological Awareness
20. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Cognitive Assessment
Anna Gillingham
Derivative
WIATII
21. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Social language
Visual Learners
Diphthong
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
22. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
WRAT
Accommodation
Derivative
ADHD
23. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Simultaneous teaching
WIATII
Chall's Stage 2
Phonemic/ decodable words
24. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Syllable
Standard deviation
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
25. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Tactile
Six basic types of syllables
Orthography
26. r-controlled syllable
Synthetic Instruction
Six basic types of syllables
IEP
Vr
27. Wide Range Achievement Test
MSLE
WRAT
Pre-English
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
28. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Affix
Open Syllable
Quadrigraph
Standardized test
29. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Norm-referenced tests
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Standard Scores
Trigraph
30. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Phonological Awareness
SBOE
Norm-referenced tests
Rate
31. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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32. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Visual Learners
Oral Language
Norm-Referenced Test
Open Syllable
33. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grapheme
Linguistic Method
Achievement test
IDEA
34. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Whole Language
Adolf Kusmaul
Samuel T. Orton
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
35. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Fluency
Vowel
Accommodation
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
36. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
IEP
VAKT
The Norman Conquest
Standard deviation
37. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Comprehension
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
WRAT
38. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Norm-Referenced Test
Visual Learners
39. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Vowel
CTOPP
Progress Monitoring
Accuracy
40. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
IEP
Base Word
Six basic types of syllables
Analytic
41. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Closed Syllable
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
42. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
V-e
WIATII
Latin layer of language
43. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
VV
Universal Screening
Greek layer of language
Whole Language
44. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Derivative
Diphthong
Breve
The Norman Conquest
45. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Progress Monitoring
MSLE
Syllable Instruction
ADHD
46. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
NICHD
Phonology
Orthography
Modern English
47. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
CTOPP
Oral Language
Norm-Referenced Test
Accommodation
48. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
Direct Instruction
Towre
Diagnostic Teaching
49. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Funding
Progress Monitoring
Raw score
Top-down Reading Approach
50. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Chall's Stage 2
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Digraph
Phonics approach